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This means you are likely more or less typical Finnish plus unusually Mediterranean (i.e. shore from Istanbul to Rome or the usual islands) admixed Turkish.

This fits with your father being Y chromosome halplgroup I, which is unusual in the mediterreanean area and rare in Turkey. The best two population fit was CLEARLY Finland-Cyprus ... which is doing very very well.

I send two maps, representing the two last lists above, and both maps are similar.

The problem is that McDonald, as well as so many making these tests, uses a biased Finnish reference. It is too stubborn to be made knowingly by testers themselves and I am ready to say that they are not not aware of weaknesses in softwares they use. I can make better analyses using Dna.Land's software (freely available on their site) than Dna.Land can do, despite of their much better reference populations.

Three simple facts about Finns:
1. Baltic Finnic languages (including Finnish) never came from the Volga basin along with ancestors of present-day Finns.
2. Finnish I1 (around 30% of all Finns) has Germanic roots from the late Bronze Age or the early Iron Age.
3. As to the Finnish prehistory we have no evidences about any Iron Age (or later) east-to-west migration, but many unquestionable evidences about west-to-east migrations.